| Descript |
308 sidor 22 cm |
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A vibrant and perceptive novel about a father's plot to win back his children's inheritance. Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate; and Maggie, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together. Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, with shades of Philip Roth and Zadie Smith. It's a novel about money, privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy, rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer industry, and what it means to be a "good person." |
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Änklingar
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Mödrar
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Fäder
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Rika
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Far-barnrelationer
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Lärare
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Widowers -- Fiction
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College teachers -- Fiction
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Father and child -- Fiction
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Homecoming -- Fiction
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Wealth -- Fiction
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Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
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Resentment -- Fiction
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Ressentiment -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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Widowers.
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Wealth.
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Resentment.
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Homecoming.
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Father and child.
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College teachers.
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College teachers -- Fiction.
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Father and child -- Fiction.
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Homecoming -- Fiction.
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Wealth -- Fiction.
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Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
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Resentment -- Fiction.
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Mothers -- Death.
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Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fiction
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Saint Louis (Mo.)
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Missouri -- Saint Louis.
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Missouri -- Saint Louis.
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Skönlitteratur
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Romaner
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Humoristiska skildringar
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Humorous fiction.
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Fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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| Classmark |
813.6
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781787331686 (pbk.) |
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1787331687 (pbk.) |
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9781787330450 Inbunden |
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1787330451 (hbk.) |
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9781473549791 |
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(ePub ebook) 9781473549791 |
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